[INDOLOGY] A new Sanskrit Reader

[rrocher]

Dear Dr. Ruppel,

Congratulations on your contract, and thanks for undertaking such a 
useful project.  I am retired from teaching, but I applaud this project 
nonetheless.

My principal suggestion is to include, perhaps toward the end of the 
reader, samples of commentarial literature.  Vyākaraṇa and dharmaśāstra 
are good fishing ponds for such texts, but the field matters less than 
providing the learner with samples of commentarial style.

With all best wishes,
Rosane Rocher

On 6/12/17 4:03 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just received a contract to write a new intermediate Sanskrit Reader 
> -- a 21st-century Lanman, if you will. Its aims will be to help 
> students apply and practice their grammar knowledge, increase their 
> vocabulary and their reading stamina, and give them a taste of a 
> broader variety of Sanskrit textual genres.
>
> Each text extract will be up to about ten pages long and come with an 
> introduction, as well as grammar and vocabulary notes on every page. 
> Several members of this list have already very kindly made excellent 
> suggestions for texts or text excerpts that they would like to see 
> included in the Reader; but given the wonderful breadth and enormous 
> collective experience of this list, I would like to ask all of you: 
> are there any texts or even specific passages that you have always 
> wished existed in a format suited for presentation to intermediate 
> students?
>
> The more broadly useful the Reader might prove to the members of our 
> field who are involved in Sanskrit instruction, the better; so if you 
> have any suggestions or ideas, I would love to hear them. I am of 
> course very happy to give credit to anyone who shares their thoughts 
> with me.
>
> If you have any questions about how I am intending to structure the 
> Reader, what I am so far planning to include etc, please don't 
> hesitate to ask.
>
> All the best,
>    Antonia
>
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